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The Torggler Summer Vocal Institute at Christopher Newport University has lined up some impressive artists — opera baritone Nathan Gunn, Broadway dynamo Patti Lupone, jazz singer Spider Saloff and the male a cappella group Straight No Chaser — who will perform in the coming weeks. Less publicized is the first-rate faculty that will be giving workshops and master classes in opera and music theater to the 45 high school and college kids who come from Florida, Arizona, California and other parts of the country. They're in town for two weeks beginning Sunday, July 6. Now in its second year, the institute is well on its way to building a national reputation in its field. Mark...

Indiana University has adopted a new policy on sexual misconduct and harassment that includes definitions of consent and outlines procedures for reporting and investigating incidents. The policy took effect March 1 and stemmed from a six-month project...

During the day, Rachel Humphreys is a regular Newman Central Catholic High School senior. But by night, the self-proclaimed girly-girl becomes a well-dressed, 18-year-old entrepreneur. With the help of the Whiteside Area Career Center CEO class...

A House Republican spending plan includes nearly twice as much for a medical school campus in downtown Evansville as Gov. Mike Pence set aside in his proposed budget. The House GOP budget released Monday calls for $36 million in financing for the regional...

Indiana law schools are taking steps to bring in new students and adjust their educational approach as enrollment continues to wane. The number of first-year students at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law has fallen 10 percent this year after a...

A team of Indiana University scientists has won a $3.3 million grant to develop a new tool in the fight against the growing threat posed by antibiotic-resistant germs. The National Institutes of Health awarded the IU researchers the grant after being...

Columbus North senior Keirsten White believes in wishes — so much so that she once left 100 pennies at a Columbus fountain saying, "Your next wish is on me." It was that kind of spirit that moved White to do something to help the family of...

Peer into the kitchen window of David Lyman's Bloomington home at dinner time, and you will find three retired gentlemen and a teenage boy sitting together at the table. Lyman, 68, and Tom Glastras, 90, co-own the house they share with Carlos Cortina, 76,...

A passionate advocate for the falsely accused and an attorney dedicated to fighting injustice, Jane Raley helped overturn convictions of men and women who had spent years behind bars for crimes they did not commit.
During 14 years at Northwestern...

Every year at the end of the summer I take our Kiplinger interns out to lunch and ask them two general questions: What did you learn about personal finance during your time with us, and what advice would you give your fellow college students about...

An Indiana University student from Amsterdam was among those killed when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crashed in Ukraine, killing all on board, the school said in a statement.
Karlijn Keijzer, 25, was a doctoral student in the chemistry department of...

WASHINGTON — Challenged to list several questionable procedures that are commonly used in their field, America's joint surgeons came out against custom shoe inserts and two types of dietary supplements.
They also discouraged the long-term use of wrist...

There's a passage at the beginning of Michele Weiner Davis' 2008 book, "The Sex-Starved Wife: What to Do When He's Lost Desire" (Simon and Schuster), that underscores what experts say is a larger problem than our culture lets on.
"You...

— Last year, as the U.S. Olympic swimming trials drew record crowds in Omaha, the popular refrain was Michael Phelps had created a wave of general interest in the sport that would keep rolling.
Last week, as the first U.S. Championships or trials without...

A blood test can tell you if you’ve got HIV, high cholesterol or certain kinds of cancer. Now scientists are trying to create a blood test that would reveal whether someone was about to commit suicide.
“Individuals at risk often choose not to share their...

A child born to a father 45 or older is three and a half times more likely to be diagnosed with autism, more than 13 times more likely to have attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and almost 25 times more likely to suffer from bipolar...

A new study concludes that the MTV show "16 and Pregnant" reduced teenage births by nearly 6% in the year and a half after the show started airing, countering concerns that the popular show has glamorized teen motherhood.
Teen motherhood has...

This article originally ran in print on March 7, 2012.
The international group of computer hackers known as Anonymous lost some of its mystery Tuesday with the arrest of five men, including a 27-year-old Chicagoan, said to be connected to a clique of...

So many Americans experience dangerous fluctuations in heartbeat that about 400,000 times a year a device is implanted in their chests to keep a normal rhythm.
But the defibrillators that send a life-saving electric buzz through the heart can be so...